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In Explaining Creativity, author and professor R. Keith Sawyer gives a comprehensive overview of the psychological research done on creativity so far. Though he touches topics such as the history of creativity research to research on creativity in various domains such as art and science, one of the most valuable

I recently finished Shelley Carson’s book on the neural bases of creativity, and it was a pretty interesting read. Carson is a psychology professor at the Harvard Extension School and has been conducting research on creativity for many years. In Your Creative Brain, Carson’s main thesis of book is that everyone

Real-World Creativity

Welcome to my thesis blog! I'm Priscilla, and I'm writing this thesis for my Masters degree in Interaction Design, but more importantly, to satisfy this curiosity I've had for a few years now to learn about how creativity really works, and of course, to design something that can support people being creative. This project should last one year, from Spring 2012 - Spring 2013. Feel free to contact me if you have any comments / feedback at priscilm [at symbol] andrew.cmu.edu.